The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-03-23
and yelled with pain. Di. Hayd bad given

and yelled with pain. Dl. Hayd had given
him morphine, but il had no effect.
William J. Mann, one of the proprietors
OF the house, and bis wife, had q thrilling
experience in getting out. Mrs. Mann was
terribly burned about the head, arms and
legs. Their little daughter Jennie was also
badly burned. Five girls who roomed
on the fifth floor made a rope OF
bed clothes and hung it out of the window,
but none of them seemed to have the
courage 10 start. At last one of the i've
took hold and swung down to a window
ledge, from which she was rescued. Three
others came down in the same manner,
and the fifth girl started down. She had
gone but little distance when the rope
parted and down she went four stories.
Strange to say, she was not killed. Her
legs were terribly cut and bruised, her back
badly injured and her face and arms were
in frightful condition from burus. She
lay moaning upon a lounge at the Spencer
House, begging to be sent home. Her
name is said to be Mary Connell.
In front of Dingen Brothers store lay a
dead man covered by a mattress. He had
black hair and full face, which was
covered with blood and could not be
recognized At first it was thought he was
Superintendent Moreford, OF the Michigan
Central Railroad, but Moreford was after
ward found.
Mark Osborne, day clerk and assistant
manager of the hotel, is missing. He
slept on the south side. 1t is believed he
perished.
James Mcclure, night engineer at the
Postoffice, got into the hotel soon after the
FIRE broke out. He saved a man who was
coming down stairs in his night clothes,
and Who was prostrated by the flames and
smoke. After getting him out, he returned
and tried to rescue young girl from
I'D hr1f 81 loof in
the fire Mr.. MCGUIRE said: at was ter
rible to hear her cries. For some reason
she could not open the door, and l was
unable to break il in. Finally l was driven
away by the fire and smoke and had to
leave her to her fate. 1 could only tell
from the voice, but l supposed she was
young girl anywhere from ten to fifteen
years old. She was IN a room on the third
floor, facing on Main street."
R. A. Humes occupied a room on the
third floor. He was awakened by the elec-
tric bells, and after arousing several people
on the same floor, jumped through win
dow to the kitchen roof. There everything
was in flames. After bidding good bye to
seveal others on the same roof, he made a
rush for the Eagle street door, going
| through the kitchen skylight and out
through the flames and escaped. He left
five persons on the kitchen roof, and
thinks they must all have perished, as
they did not attempt to follow him through
the flames.
Henry Brunsey was on the top story. He
ran down one flight of stairs and started
for street window. Seeing little girl in
the hallway he returned, got her and
jumped with her in mis- arms on to Bun.
nell's Museum. The skin and the beard on
his face were burned of, and he was Sc
verely burned about the body. He will
probably die. George Michaels, a CONNER
cial traveller, had a thrilling escape. He
tried to get out by climbing hand-over-hand
along the electric light cable to the roof of
the Museum. Three others got on the wire
and it broke down. Mr.. Michaels fell about
thirty-tive feet, but broke no bones.
c. Gilbert. of New York, is at the Tiff
House, terribly burned. His head and
right arm are bound up, and mask covers
his face.
w. S. Dewey, of Rochester, is badly
scorched about the face. He rushed for the
stairway. but was driven by the flames to
the ladders.
F. Woods, of Chicago, made rope of
sheets and slid down in safety, escaping
with few blisters. A number of others
who were injured are at various places, and
their names have not yet been learned.